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Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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LADY GAGA You stay on me like my godsdamned shadow, vampire."
Mirceo's lips curved. "Eternally, demon.
KRESLEY COLE Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
BILLY CORGAN I am with the angels and just completely happy, ... We are eternally grateful to the invisible hand ...
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for they make up
all of life:
You will eternally be
loo...
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KRISTEN STEWART Hope is the light that flickers and burns eternally, when you remain steadfast with faith.
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HELENA BLAVATSKY Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
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You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You und...
PABLO NERUDA Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.
All is one, and connected,
making an i...
MARTH this is the upside of already being eternally damned
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GUY QUADEN The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
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and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good...
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Sure!
But for how long?
Can any human endeavor be eternally ...
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ALAN MOORE I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which...
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THOMAS MERTON I am not who you thik I am,' I say.
'Who are you?'
'I am number Four.
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“Oh, yes,” Lesta...
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PEARL S. BUCK I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
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MARIAH CAREY The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
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WALTER SCOTT I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, rea...
KURT VONNEGUT I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reaso...
KURT VONNEGUT If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a g...
WILLIAM JAMES If you hate me for who I am,
then hate, you should;
but I hate it when I am being,
m...
AKASH MANDAL Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN JAY LERNER Who decides what is evil and what is good? The ones who are at the top and have all the power.
GIDEON O. OMORUYI Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you wan...
DALE CARNEGIE One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.
ROMY SCHNEIDER A woman of virtue is a Heavenly flower whom never dies because her soul is eternally beautiful.
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows t...
PETER S. BEAGLE I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you r...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for,...
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EMILY BRONTë Once I was free in the shackles of sin:
Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;
Free to...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. If you sow evil & then seek that evil should not grow in your household,then what you are seeking wi...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life bless...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
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